Tokyo, Japan – A Shinto priest performs a purification ritual for a group of Japanese business persons who offer prayers for thriving business at Tokyo’s Kanda Myojin, a Shinto shrine thought to enshrine the god of prosperous business, January 4, 2013, the first business day of the year. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO)

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Tokyo, Japan – A huge throng of Japanese business persons offer prayers for thriving business at Tokyo’s Kanda Myojin, January 4, 2013. (Photo by Natsuki Sakai/AFLO)